My 14 times great grandfather, Richard de Pyvelesdon, was born about 1328/33 at Emral, Worthenbury, Flintshire, home of his parents, Sir Roger de Pyvelesdon and his wife Margaret, born about 1338, daughter of Llewelyn ap Ynyr of Yale in Denbighshire and his wife Angharad, daughter of Dafydd Hen.

Richard married Lucy (sometimes referred to as Lleuki or Lleucu), daughter of Madoc Foel ap Ieuan of Eglwysegle, a division of the Lordship of Bromfield.